Industry Experience: Retail experience preferred
Expected Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 01/31/27 (strong likelihood of extension)
Location: Katy, TX- Academy Sports HQ - MUST BE ON SITE 4 DAYS PER WEEK IN KATY TX- NO REMOTE CANDIDATES
Interview Process (including any client interviews): 2-3 rounds- two internal interviews and maybe a client interview
Job Description:
Experience: 6 7 years
Domain: Digital Commerce / Marketplace / eCommerce
Preferred Platform: Mirakl Marketplace Platform or similar marketplace platforms
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager Marketplace to lead product initiatives associated with the design, implementation, and evolution of a digital marketplace. The role will work closely with business, engineering, UX, architecture, operations, and third-party partners to translate marketplace strategy into scalable product capabilities.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in eCommerce or marketplace products, including seller onboarding, product/catalog management, offers, orders, marketplace operations, integrations, and customer experience. Experience implementing or working with Mirakl is strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive the marketplace product roadmap, aligning product priorities with business objectives and customer needs.
- Lead product discovery and translate business requirements into product capabilities, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
- Partner with business and technology teams to establish marketplace capabilities covering:
- Seller/vendor onboarding
- Product and catalog onboarding
- Product taxonomy and attributes
- Offer management, pricing and inventory
- Order management and fulfillment
- Seller performance and marketplace operations
- Returns, cancellations, refunds and customer experience
- Drive implementation of marketplace capabilities using Mirakl Marketplace Platform or comparable solutions.
- Work closely with engineering and architecture teams on integrations between the marketplace and eCommerce storefront, PIM, OMS, ERP, payment, fulfillment and other enterprise systems.
- Collaborate with UX/design teams to define seamless experiences across customer, seller, and marketplace-operator journeys.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, UAT, release readiness and product-launch activities.
- Establish product KPIs and use customer, seller and operational data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Identify dependencies, risks and trade-offs and communicate product decisions effectively to business and technology stakeholders.
- Support the transition from marketplace implementation into ongoing optimization and scale.
Required Qualifications
- 6 7 years of overall experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or digital product delivery, with significant hands-on product ownership responsibilities.
- Strong experience delivering eCommerce, marketplace, retail, or digital commerce products.
- Good understanding of marketplace business models and first-party vs. third-party seller ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience defining product roadmaps, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and product backlogs.
- Strong understanding of catalog, seller, offer, inventory, order and fulfillment workflows.
- Experience working with APIs and integration-heavy digital commerce ecosystems.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum product development environments.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills with the ability to work across business, engineering, architecture, UX and operations teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a customer-first product mindset.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Mirakl Marketplace Platform, including marketplace operator and seller workflows.
- Experience with Mirakl-related seller onboarding and catalog processes. Mirakl currently highlights seller onboarding, catalog mapping/categorization, catalog validation and seller management among its marketplace capabilities. [mirakl.com]
- Understanding of marketplace integrations using REST APIs, webhooks and GraphQL. Mirakl documents Front, Operator and Seller REST APIs as well as GraphQL capabilities for marketplace integrations. [developer.mirakl.com]
- Experience integrating marketplace solutions with platforms such as SAP Commerce, Salesforce Commerce, Adobe Commerce/Magento or Shopify. These are among the operator connectors currently identified by Mirakl. [developer.mirakl.com]
- Experience launching a marketplace from concept/discovery through MVP, go-live and post-launch optimization.
- B2B and/or B2C marketplace experience.
- Experience with onboarding and operationalizing sellers on the marketplace. This will help find someone who has not only helped build, but also launch such marketplaces
Key Skills
Product Management | Marketplace | eCommerce | Mirakl | Product Roadmap | Seller Onboarding | Catalog Management | Product Taxonomy | Offer Management | Order Management | OMS | PIM | API Integrations | Agile/Scrum | User Stories | Backlog Management | UAT | Product Analytics | Stakeholder Management
Ideal Candidate Profile
A strong candidate would have 6 7 years of digital product experience with at least one marketplace or complex eCommerce implementation, and should be able to comfortably discuss the end-to-end journey from seller onboarding catalog/product setup offers/inventory customer purchase order/fulfillment returns seller performance.